Sean, a British soldier accused of shooting a disarmed enemy, falls in love with Hannah while working with his lawyer, catching her at a bus stop. "I don't want you to be my lawyer anymore," Sean said, "because I wouldn't be able to ask you out." Hannah, who also had a crush on Sean, kissed Sean and said, "I will I'll contact you again." Then he boarded the oncoming bus and went home.
Surveillance cameras next to the station captured the footage. Betsy, the duty officer in the monitoring room, was attracted by the sweet monitoring pictures on the screen, and put her hands together on her chest, imagining her own love. But the next scene surprised her. In the picture, Hannah did not get in the car, but fought with Sean. Sean knocked her out and pushed Hannah, who had passed out, out of the surveillance's control.
Betsy hurriedly called the patrolman on the intercom, and so began a story about surveillance that is ubiquitous in our lives.
However, all this is just the beginning. Sean was unknowingly involved in a game designed by his lawyer Hannah, but all this was already in a larger game intertwined by power and technology. Like a fly bound by a spider's web, both the fly and the spider think that what they are after is justice.
This is a TV series that is difficult to explain the plot in a short language, but in one sentence the main line of the show is: the three groups pursue their own justice or interests through the game of power and technology , to put it bluntly, desire.
The first group is the public represented by the protagonist Sean—without mastery of technology, without power, and being manipulated like a chess piece; the second group is the newcomer in the system represented by female police detective Rachel— They have certain skills and powers, and they have certain ideas about the system and justice; the third group, the high-level personnel in the system represented by the "behind-the-scenes" Frank, Garland, and Danny, hold the most funds, State-of-the-art technology, unbridled black power.
But this is not a drama that exposes the corruption of the power group and the darkness of the society. Just like the title of the drama "Truth Capture", this drama focuses on showing and discussing, with the support or interference of power and technology, in modern society What is truth, what is justice, what is truth.
Intelligence and evidence obtained through illegal means cannot be used as evidence in court trials, and you cannot pursue legal justice through illegal means. Therefore, evidence obtained through illegal means such as wiretapping, surveillance, and tracking is legally invalid. Even if the police obtain conclusive evidence of a potential terrorist's terrorist act through these means, they cannot convict him.
This is a very difficult situation to choose between, on the one hand, terrorist activities that may endanger public safety, and on the other hand, there is no legal evidence to prove its guilt. However, now, technology has provided a new idea, which is reflected in the play. By tampering with real-time monitoring, face-changing technology and a series of means, a surveillance video that can directly accuse a suspect can be produced without ordinary people finding out. , thus providing legal evidence, which is called "Connection" in the play.
In the scene mentioned at the beginning of the article, the video displayed in the monitoring system is the video produced after the flowers are moved.
Sean himself was deceived by such a video. He recalled the scene over and over again, which was so real that he even questioned whether he was really violent to Hannah like that, let alone what other people would think when they saw it.
Surprisingly, it was Hannah and her team who made this video. There are many victims in her group, and their relatives have been victims of the technology -- sent to prison for something they didn't do. Hannah and her team produced the video themselves to demonstrate the viability of surveillance tampering, revealing the organizations that tampered with the video. The choice of Sean is to value the public attention of his trial for shooting and disarming the enemy, so as to make his actions more exposed.
The show has opened the first round here, but there are bigger rounds to come, which involve the other two groups.
Rachel is a newcomer who is on the rise in the workplace. She has a certain sense of justice and still has certain illusions about the system. At first, she carried out the investigation of Sean and Hannah's case with the general way of handling the case, but she hit a wall everywhere. Just when she was about to get close to the truth, her superiors dismissed her.
And her immediate superior and lover is Danny in the third group with the most power in the play. Danny keeps persuading Rachel to leave the case, but Rachel won't listen, even after being fired. Eventually she came to a house that was the headquarters of the group that tampered with the surveillance video. This organization is not a hacker club composed of angry youths and rebels, but a project directly in charge of the CIA and the National Security Agency, which means that it is an officially responsible organization. At this time, the previous series of doubts can be solved. Everything is controlled by the government. The tampering of videos is a project that has been carried out for many years, and is used to make possible terrorists confess. Of course, this is not only the purpose.
Sean has never done anything bad to Hannah, but eventually pleaded guilty, because during his meeting with his daughter, he was captured with high-definition facial details at close range, and was threatened by Frank that he would make it if he didn't cooperate. Video, enough to ruin the video of your life. This is another use of the technique of grafting.
Einstein said that the biggest problem facing mankind is whether a series of social concepts such as law and ethics can keep up with the speed of technological development. Now it seems that, at least at this stage, the answer is no. Technology is developing rapidly, but the restrictions on technology application are far from keeping up.
Behind the technology must be power. Having more power means mastering higher technology. If technology is not constrained, the power behind it will inevitably exceed the constraints of the current law. Scenes in the play: Threats and intimidation with video technology, making false accusations, all show people this terrifying transgression of power.
But that's only one aspect, the show also shows the other side: technology does make a difference and maintains public safety.
Garland of the Third Group asked Rachel: Why can't those who go to jail and their lawyers prove they didn't commit these crimes? Because they have done it, what we are doing is just restoring the facts, and this can save the lives of millions of people and the stability of society. It was this statement that made Rachel unable to refuse Danny's invitation to join the organization in the end, ending the show with "When will you start working?"
Some people say that the future society will be divided into two classes, one class is the superhuman class with technology, and the other is the ordinary class without technology. If we allow the development of technology, immersed in the pleasure of rapid technological development, society may be divided into two extremes - heaven and hell, there is no human world. People in heaven control everything through technology. People in hell are helpless and don’t even feel that they are in hell. All justice, principles, morals, and values are meaningless, leaving only one group of people enslaved to another group of people.
Rachel compromised her recruitment at the Superman class, choosing to rise to the first class. The truth she originally believed in became the truth of another class in an instant. It was difficult for her to say that what was before was not the truth, nor could she say that it was the truth. She can't make it clear, who can see clearly in this undercurrent of power field and technological trend?
By the end, Sean didn't stick to the truth, Rachel ignored the truth, and Frank and Danny tampered with one truth to make another. In the cobwebs of power and technology, the fly of truth is trapped there, not so much caught by the web as it has nowhere to run.
But it's not all over yet. In the end, we will find that the so-called senior members of the third group, such as Frank, Garland, and Danny, are just pawns for those with greater power. Interestingly, at the end of the final episode, Frank's conversation with high-level officials from the United States implicitly pointed at the indecent video scandal of US President Trump, leaving the audience a lot of room for pondering.
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